(c) D.Tringham
(M433) D73OKG Is seen Competing with Leicester Citybus in September 1993 and is a Carlyle bodied Freight Rover Sherpa that came from National Welsh via Delivered-in-Style of Syston earlier that year..

(c) D.Tringham
(M434) E81OUH a little Carlyle-bodied Freight Rover Sherpa (with a Ford engine) appears somewhat overpowered by a Leicester Citybus Dennis Dominator with which it is competing in September 1993. The Sherpa was new to National Welsh though was one of a batch that was aquired from the short-lived Delivered-in-Style operation based at Syston in May 1993.

(c) D.Tringham
(M460) D130OWG was a Dodge S56 with Reeve Burgess bodywork that had been new to South Yorkshire PTE. It was one of a batch allocated to Melton Mowbray in febuary 1992 to replace Transits and was painted in Fairtax livery and carried the name "Waggoner" and is seen running into Leicester on route 128 from Melton Mowbray in January 1994.

(M469) F256DKG was one of half a dozen Ford Transit engined Freight Rover Sherpa's aquired from National Welsh in 1992. They were only three years old when aquired but did not stay in this fleet very long either.

(c) D.Tringham
(M476) E326LHN was a Renault R56/Northern Counties in this instance originating with Cleveland Transit though arriving in the Fox fleet via Derby City Rider. Photographed in Hinckley in August 1997.

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